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Author: Brian T. Hodges Why are the feds trying to convince Washington’s cities and counties to adopt new development regulations that could limit a landowner’s right to have an outhouse, trailer, or even mow his lawn?  It’s because 6 years ago, in National Wildlife Federation v. FEMA, 345 F. Supp. 2d 1151 (W. Dist. Wa ...

Author: Daniel Himebaugh Washington State Representative Jeff Morris (D-Mount Vernon) writes in The Seattle Times that a new EPA rule — the Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule — will cost Washington up to 26,000 green jobs, and hurt more than 130 renewable-energy projects.  Morris says that the new rule "will regulate emissions fro ...

Today, CBN News posted an interview with PLF attorney Ted Hadzi-Antich on the EPA’s regulation of CO2 (carbon dioxide) as a “pollutant” under the Clean Water Act.  PLF’s lawsuit challenging the ruling focuses on the EPA’s refusal to submit the regulation to an independent Science Advisory Board for review, which is re ...

Reason’s Damon Root has an article on the Harmon case, in which the Supreme Court has been asked to take another look at New York’s perverse and iniquitous rent-control laws. You can check out PLF’s brief in the case here. … ...

More than you might think, according to Regulation: A Primer, a new paper by Mercatus Center researcher Jerry Brito and Susan E. Dudley of George Washington University’s Regulatory Studies Center: You might be surprised to learn just how many regulations you encounter in an average day. Perhaps your day starts when you clock radio goes off ...

PLF attorneys regularly represent people who have been stymied by government in their attempts to earn a living.  For example, Adam Sweet and Michael Munie were both prevented from legally operating moving companies until PLF challenged the unconstitutional laws that stood in their way.  It was with these and other entrepreneurial PLF clients in ...

Courts typically avoid ruling on constitutional issues unless it is necessary to decide a case. There are several reasons for this practice, not the least of which is that ruling on controversial constitutional matters when the case can be resolved on less controversial statutory grounds can make the court look political, or lend credence to ̷ ...

The Wall Street Journal recently published an interesting article that considers whether concert tickets are property.  The philosophical question has practical implications, as California lawmakers are considering whether to ban paperless tickets, which can only be redeemed with proof of identification.  Paperless tickets are meant to curb scal ...

youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msQ_khFmKtU#at=232/youtube Our friends at LearnLiberty.org recently released this excellent video explaining the “bootleggers and Baptists” theory of regulation and why it explains environmental regulation. This phenomenon isn’t limited to federal regulation, of course. As we recently explain ...